Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...judge's erudite views, the Government flatly contended that he had erred, that the Amendment's ratification had been thoroughly proper and legal. Lay speculation thereafter ran riot in an effort to unearth Supreme Court decisions which would bear directly on the issue. Precedent. In 1920 Elihu Root argued the brewers' case before the Supreme Court. According to Judge Clark, Mr. Root invoked the loth Amendment against the 18th only to show that Prohibition was a "reserved" or forbidden power for the Federal Government, but not to question the validity of its ratification. Mr. Root, said Judge...
...Over-Production. the Depression has been an almost fatal blow. Oil consumption was nearing stability on a basis that allowed for an annual increase of 10%. The 1930 increase will be abnormal and the difference upsets all plans for stability. Too much competition seems to have been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict output, prefer to sell by price-cutting. International competition has also been a major difficulty. And mechanical improvements have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry...
Under the Root formula the U. S. could "naturally" quit the Court whenever its objection to an advisory opinion was overruled. Explained President Hoover last week: "The provisions free us from any entanglements in the diplomacy of other nations. We cannot be summoned before this Court. We can seek its services by agreement with other nations. These protocols permit our withdrawal from the Court at any time without reproach or ill-will." The World Court protocols were not welcome in the Senate at this short and crowded session because the parliamentary situation there was already complicated enough without them...
...Court action by the U. S.: 1923, submitted to the Senate by President Harding; 1926, ratified (76-10-17) with five reservations; 1928, Reservation No. 5 rejected by other powers; President Coolidge said he would not ask the Senate to change its position but later approved Elder Statesman Elihu Root's going to Geneva as an unofficial negotiator; 1929, Root Formula framed, approved by World Court nations; U. S. signed revised protocols at Geneva; President Hoover rammed the protocols into a pigeonhole awaiting an auspicious moment to send them to the Senate for ratification...
...Received from President Hoover for ratification the World Court protocols embodying the Root formula...